Cybersecurity Jobs in Northern Ireland

Cybersecurity
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 35 52
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 -5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 29 61 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.19% 7.92% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 8.30% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 16 33 24
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,950 £28,837
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,404 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% - +11.73%
75th Percentile £90,000 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,700 £101,375
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,750 £64,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% +1.17% +2.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 579 735 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 83.67% 95.45% 97.28%
Number of salaries quoted 288 342 366
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,750 £76,250 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Northern Ireland

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Northern Ireland

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Northern Ireland

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim -7 26 £50,309 +0.62% 37
County Down - 3 £37,500 -
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 16 (55.17%) AWS
3 11 (37.93%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) HTTP
1 11 (37.93%) MQTT
1 11 (37.93%) TCP/IP
2 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 4 (13.79%) Network Security
4 3 (10.34%) Internet
4 3 (10.34%) LAN
4 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 3 (10.34%) WAN
4 3 (10.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Architect
2 11 (37.93%) Software Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) ICT Manager
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) IT Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Firewall Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Audit Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Security Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) AngularJS
1 11 (37.93%) Kafka
1 11 (37.93%) Node.js
1 11 (37.93%) RabbitMQ
1 11 (37.93%) RESTful
1 11 (37.93%) Web Services
2 2 (6.90%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) IoT
2 5 (17.24%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.34%) Cyber Security Posture
3 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Mac OS
1 3 (10.34%) Unix
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Computer Science
2 11 (37.93%) Analytics
2 11 (37.93%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (37.93%) Computer Vision
2 11 (37.93%) Customer Requirements
2 11 (37.93%) Data Analytics
2 11 (37.93%) Deep Learning
2 11 (37.93%) Microservices
2 11 (37.93%) Product Management
2 11 (37.93%) Software Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) Threat Analysis
3 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (17.24%) Contract Management
4 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
4 5 (17.24%) Information Security
4 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (17.24%) PRINCE
4 5 (17.24%) Project Management
4 5 (17.24%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 13 (44.83%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) Degree
2 11 (37.93%) Master's Degree
2 11 (37.93%) PhD
3 5 (17.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) ITGC
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Google
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk